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· Public charity

The International Association of Blacks in Dance

To preserve and promote dance by people of african ancestry.

$3.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$6.6MEnvironment$151kScience & Tech$125kHealth$13kHuman Services$13k
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $49k
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $3.2M
$125,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$6.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DANCE IQUAIL$200,000
THREADS DANCE PROJECT$200,000
SOLE DEFINED$200,000
ROBERT MOSES KIN$200,000
WIDEMAN DAVIS DANCE$200,000
JAMEL GAINES CREATIVE$200,000
RED CLAY DANCE CO$200,000
UBW INC$200,000
TU DANCE$197,000
MUNTU DANCE THEATRE$190,000
CHICAGO CITY THEATRE CO$186,175
THE FORCES OF NATURE INC$125,000
BALLETHNIC$112,500
SPECTRUM DANCE THEATRE$103,500
SOUTH CHICAGO DANCE$100,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THREADS DANCE PROJECT: $200k → 11%DANCE IQUAIL: $200k → 22%DIMENSIONS DANCE THEATRE: $64k → 10%ROBERT MOSES KIN: $200k → 10%LULA WASHINGTON DANCE THEATRE: $100k → 14%UBW INC: $200k → 20%DALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE: $100k → 14%WIDEMAN DAVIS DANCE: $200k → 16%REJOICE DIASPORA DANCE: $25k → 12%COLLAGE DANCE COLLECTIVE: $100k → 17%BALLETHNIC: $113k → 14%NEW DANCE THEATRE: $100k → 12%DAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY: $100k → 14%SPECTRUM DANCE THEATRE: $104k → 9%DEEPLY ROOTED DANCE THEATER: $100k → 14%SOLE DEFINED: $200k → 11%TU DANCE: $197k → 14%THE PHILADELPHIA DANCE COMPANY: $100k → 22%DIAMANO COURA WEST: $54k → 10%LULA WASHINGTON DANCE THEATRE: $100k → 14%JAMEL GAINES CREATIVE: $200k → 20%DALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE: $100k → 14%COLLAGE DANCE COLLECTIVE: $25k → 17%NEW DANCE THEATRE: $100k → 12%DAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY: $100k → 14%DEEPLY ROOTED PRODUCTIONS: $25k → 14%SOLE DEFINED: $78k → 11%THE PHILADELPHIA DANCE COMPANY: $100k → 22%DIAMONO COURA WEST AFRICAN DANCE COMPANY: $27k → 10%LULA WASHINGTON DANCE THEATRE: $25k → 14%THE FORCES OF NATURE INC: $125k → 17%DALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE: $25k → 14%COLLAGE DANCE COLLECTIVE: $25k → 17%ATLANTA DANCE CONNECTION: $75k → 13%NEW DANCE THEATRE: $25k → 12%DAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY: $75k → 14%EMERGE125: $100k → 17%KANKOURAN WEST AFRICAN DANCE COMPANY: $100k → 14%NAJWA DANCE CORPS: $91k → 14%MODARTS DANCE COLLECTIVE: $100k → 17%PRINCESS MHOON DANCE FOUNDATION: $75k → 14%STEP AFRIKA: $100k → 14%RED CLAY DANCE CO: $200k → 14%SOUTH CHICAGO DANCE: $100k → 14%MUNTU DANCE THEATRE: $190k → 14%DANSE4NIA REPERTORY: $59k → 22%CHICAGO CITY THEATRE CO: $186k → 14%MUNTU DANCE THEATRE OF CHICAGO: $89k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
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IL
NY
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IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.7M · 44 repeat orgs$233k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against -41% for those funded once.

44 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
4

Total granted

$6.7M
$120k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
-41%

Still filing today

84%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • MD
    MUNTU DANCE THEATRE
    5× · 2018–2025 · $316k · revenue +37%
  • SD
    SOLE DEFINED
    4× · 2022–2025 · $304k · revenue +162% · 26% of their budget
  • DC
    DAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY
    4× · 2018–2023 · $300k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • PM
    PRINCESS MHOON DANCE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $75k
  • REJOICE DIASPORA DANCE THEATER
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -41%
  • AA
    AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -51%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Los Angeles International Dance Festival
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2
Kuumba West African Dance Company
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3
World Dance Theatre

To promote cross-cultural awareness, understanding, and appreciation through the arts

Arts & Culture
4
Indian Dance Training Center

Indian Dance Training Center (IDTC) is a community development organizationaimed at empowering the youth through cultural dance training of traditional SouthAsian dance styles as well as classical theater. IDTC provides trainings,…

Arts & Culture
5
Nyeri Madi Cultural Dance Group
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6
Alma Nyc Dance Company Inc
Arts & Culture
7
The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc
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8
Michiyaya Dance Company Inc

The mission of MICHIYAYA Dance is to present multidisciplinary performances that inspire and empower people with limitless boundaries. In addition to performances, they offer accessible, educational public initiatives nurturing voices and…

Arts & Culture
9
Barkha Dance Company Inc

Creating, Performing & Sharing Powerful classical dance Kathak

Arts & Culture
10
Motiv8 Dance Movement and Performing Arts
Arts & Culture
11
Moveius Contemporary Ballet Inc dba Dance Loft on 14

Guided by the belief in dance as a powerful means for cultural and social transformation, Moveius Contemporary Ballet's mission is to catalyze art and community vibrancy in Washington, DC and expand access to the performing arts to a full…

Arts & Culture
12
Tickle the Sleeping Giant Inc

To create contemporary dance works

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Dance Theatre Inc; the most unlike its peers is Collage Dance Collective. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 49 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/42
Grantees still filing
30/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MUNTU DANCE THEATRE: $316,000 · Arts & CultureMUNTU DANCE THEATRESOLE DEFINED: $304,160 · Arts & CultureDAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY: $300,000 · Arts & CultureTHREADS DANCE PROJECT: $251,000 · Arts & CultureDANCE IQUAIL INC: $251,000 · Arts & CultureU B W INC A/K/A URBAN BUSH WOMEN INC: $251,000 · Arts & CultureRobert Moses Kin: $249,860 · Arts & CultureTU DANCE: $248,000 · Arts & CultureWIDEMAN DAVIS DANCE OF NEW YORK INC: $241,000 · Arts & Culturejamel gaines creative outlet inc: $241,000 · Arts & CultureChicago City Theatre Company dba Joel Hall Dancers & Center: $227,175 · Arts & CultureDALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE INC: $225,000 · Arts & CulturePhiladelphia Dance Company: $225,000 · Arts & CultureNEW DANCE THEATRE INC: $225,000 · Arts & CultureLULA WASHINGTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE FOUNDATION: $225,000 · Arts & Culture+22 more: $2,046,546 · Arts & Culture+22 moreRED CLAY DANCE COMPANY INC: $241,000 · OtherRED CLAY DANCE …EMERGE 125 INC: $160,000 · OtherEMERGE 125 INCATLANTA DANCE CONNECTION: $116,000 · OtherATLANTA DANCE C…BALLETHNIC: $112,500 · OtherBALLETHNICKYLE ABRAHAMABRAHAM IN MOTION INC: $107,667 · OtherKYLE ABRAHAMABR…PRINCESS MHOON DANCE FOUNDATION: $75,000 · OtherPRINCESS MHOON …HAYIYA DANCE THEATRE INC: $35,000 · OtherDANCE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON: $35,000 · Other+3 more: $75,000 · Other+3 moreELEONE INC dba ELEONE DANCE THEATRE: $100,200 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$5,826,741Other$957,167Recreation & Sports$100,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMUNTU DANCE THEATRE: $316,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetSOLE DEFINED: $304,160 over 4y, 26% of budgetDAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY: $300,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetTHREADS DANCE PROJECT: $251,000 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetDANCE IQUAIL INC: $251,000 over 5y, 40% of budgetU B W INC A/K/A URBAN BUSH WOMEN INC: $251,000 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetRobert Moses Kin: $249,860 over 5y, 60% of budgetTU DANCE: $248,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetRED CLAY DANCE COMPANY INC: $241,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetWIDEMAN DAVIS DANCE OF NEW YORK INC: $241,000 over 4y, 51% of budgetjamel gaines creative outlet inc: $241,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetChicago City Theatre Company dba Joel Hall Dancers & Center: $227,175 over 4y, 33% of budgetDALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE INC: $225,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetPhiladelphia Dance Company: $225,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetNEW DANCE THEATRE INC: $225,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetLULA WASHINGTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE FOUNDATION: $225,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetFORCES OF NATURE INC: $176,000 over 5y, 37% of budgetEMERGE 125 INC: $160,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetCOLLAGE DANCE COLLECTIVE: $160,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetKANKOURAN WEST AFRICAN DANCE COMPANY: $160,000 over 4y, 34% of budgetSTEPAFRIKA USA INC: $160,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetDeeply Rooted Productions Inc: $160,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetSpectrum Dance Theater: $142,000 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetSOUTH CHICAGO DANCE THEATRE: $141,000 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetMODArts Dance Collective Inc: $140,700 over 4y, 79% of budgetNAJWA DANCE CORPS: $132,096 over 4y, 18% of budgetDiamano Coura West African Dance Co: $118,500 over 5y, 15% of budgetDIMENSIONS DANCE THEATER INCORPORATED: $115,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetDANSE4NIA REPERTORY ENSEMBLE INC: $110,250 over 5y, 40% of budgetELEONE INC dba ELEONE DANCE THEATRE: $100,200 over 5y, 31% of budgetAYODELE DRUM AND DANCE NFP: $99,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetBALLETHNIC DANCE COMPANY: $38,500 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetGARTH FAGAN DANCE INC: $38,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetIIBADA DANCERS INC: $35,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetDANCE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON: $35,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHILL DANCE ACADEMY THEATRE: $25,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetREJOICE DIASPORA DANCE THEATER: $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMOJUBA DANCE COLLECTIVE: $25,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetJONES-HAYWOOD DANCE SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Mid Atlantic Arts IncThe Andrew W Mellon F…DanceusaThe Shubert Foundatio…New England Foundatio…Gaylord and Dorothy D…The Howard Gilman Fou…The Richard H Driehau…The Ford FoundationLloyd a Fry FoundationField Foundation of I…Stockton Rush Bartol …
Mid Atlantic Arts IncMD32.4× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Danceusa · The Shubert Foundation Inc · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Richard H Driehaus Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The International Association of Blacks in Dance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The International Association of Blacks in Dance. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Rejoice Diaspora Dance Theater: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The International Association of Blacks in Dance through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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